The Livonians, or Livs, [7] are a Balto-Finnic people indigenous to northern and northwestern Latvia. Livonians historically spoke Livonian, a Uralic language closely related to Estonian and Finnish.

Livonians are among the smallest-numbered surviving Finno-Ugric peoples. Livonians live on the territory of the Republic of Latvia. Until recently they lived on the Livonian Coast of the northwestern coast of Courland (Kurzeme).

利沃尼亚（Livonia），一译立窝尼亚、利夫兰（Livland），是欧洲北部的历史地区。 利沃尼亚是中世纪后期的波罗的海东岸地区，即 爱沙尼亚 以及 拉脱维亚 的大部分领土的旧称。 历史上曾先后由 圣剑骑士团 （通称 利沃尼亚骑士团）、 丹麦 、 条顿骑士团 、 波兰立陶宛联邦 、 瑞典 、 俄罗斯帝国 、 德意志帝国 、 纳粹德国 和苏联统治。 一战 中俄罗斯帝国解体，德国战败，1918年爱沙尼亚、拉脱维亚和 立陶宛 取得独立。 1940年根据 苏德互不侵犯条约 被苏联吞并。 1941年又 …

Finnic peoples, descendants of a collection of tribal peoples speaking closely related languages of the Finno-Ugric family who migrated to the area of the eastern Baltic, Finland, and Karelia before ad 400—probably between 100 bc and ad 100, though some authorities place the migration many centuries earlier.

Livonian (Livonian: līvõ kēļ or rāndakēļ) is a Finnic language whose native land is the Livonian Coast of the Gulf of Riga, located in the north of the Kurzeme peninsula in Latvia but also used to be spoken in the Salaca River valley.

Here you can discover the places the Livonians have lived, their cultural monuments, the location of their most important archives, and also about new Livonian-related events and exhibitions. You can learn about Livonian traditional and contemporary culture as well as become acquainted with their community organisations and most important ...

In the early 14th century, the Vidzeme Livonians gradually began to assimilate into the Latgalians and other Baltic tribes of Latvia laying the foundation for the development of the Latvian language and people. It appears that Livonian was spoken in the Daugava and Idumea regions until the 15th-16th centuries, in the Gauja region until the 17th ...

By the turn of the 13th Cen­tu­ry, the arrival of Ger­man traders and mis­sion­ar­ies in the Livo­ni­an lands, also marked the begin­ning of the ear­ly record­ed his­to­ry of the Livo­ni­an peo­ple (Kar­ma 1995:76). The most famous record would become the Livo­ni­an Chron­i­cle of Hen­ry.

Livonia, lands on the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea, north of Lithuania; the name was originally applied by Germans in the 12th century to the area inhabited by the Livs, a Finno-Ugric people whose settlements centred on the mouths of the Western …

Livonians are the dying-out indigenous inhabitants of Latvian coastlines. In Medieval era they were a significant community with entire region consisting of today’s Latvia and Estonia named “Livonia”.